How did Reconstruction after the Civil War fail black American freedmen? Your students will read, research, and critically think to answer questions based on their knowledge and analysis of the reconstruction era after the Civil War.

Included in this resource:

• Lesson plan

• Do now student centered question based on quotation

• Primary & Secondary source documents with scaffolding questions

• Application/Higher Order Thinking/Closure analysis question

Analyzing Reconstruction, documents, questions, Jim Crow laws, Ku Klux Klan, Black Codes, lynching, black freedmen, challenges of Reconstruction for black freedmen, failure of Reconstruction, common core literacy and vocabulary

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